People v. S.P.

A jury found the juvenile respondent, S.P., delinquent of attempted armed robbery. Fursuant to the habitual juvenile offender statute, section 5 — 35 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (705 ILCS 405/5 — 35 (West 1996)), the trial court committed respondent to the Illinois Department of Corrections, youth division, until his twenty-first birthday. On appeal, respondent contends that the habitual juvenile offender statute was erroneously applied to him, where respondent’s two prior adjudications of delinquency did not result in his being adjudged a ward of the court.

The facts of the case are as…